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Rendering Interactive HTML using Preact

It's possible to render HTML in Preact using the dangerouslySetInnerHTML prop, however doing so bypasses the Virtual DOM entirely. This may be reasonable for static HTML, but interactivity can be a little painful to graft on without VDOM.

There is another technique available that melds HTML to Virtual DOM without such limitations.

Enter DOMParser

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Horrible JSX Transform

import { jsx } from './jsx.js';

const out = jsx(`
  const App = props => (
    <div class="app">
      <h1>Hello {"World"}</h1>
      <ul>{['a','b','c'].map(item => <li>{item}</li>)}</ul>

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// Fix Preact rendering when Google Translate breaks the DOM
const FONT_AS_TEXT = {
  localName: {
    value: null
  },
  nodeType: {
    value: 3
  },
  data: {
    get() {

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/**
 * Usage:
 * class FancyButton extends HTMLElement {
 *   constructor() {
 *     super();
 *     ensureShadowRoot(el);
 *     // if a declarative shadow root was present, it'll be here:
 *     console.log(this.shadowRoot);
 *   }
 * }

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if (!Element.prototype.getInnerHTML) {
  Element.prototype.getInnerHTML = function(opts) {
    var html = this.innerHTML;
    if (!opts || !opts.includeShadowRoots) return html;
    var m = new (self.WeakMap || Map)();
    for (var c of (opts.closedRoots || [])) m.set(c.host, c);
    var p = [];
    function walk(node) {
      var c, shadow = node.shadowRoot || m.get(node);
      if (shadow) p.push(node.innerHTML, `<template shadowroot="${shadow.mode}">${shadow.innerHTML}</template>`);

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/**
 * cloneNode(true), but also clones shadow roots.
 * @param {Element}
 * @param {ShadowRoot[]} [shadowRoots] Any closed shadow roots passed here will be included.
 */
function cloneWithShadowRoots(node, shadowRoots) {
  function walk(node, clone) {
    let shadow = node.shadowRoot || shadowRoots.find(r => r.host === node);
    if (shadow) {
      clone.attachShadow({ mode: shadow.mode }).append(...[].map.call(shadow.childNodes, c => c.cloneNode(true)));

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Preact: Progressive Hydration

Preact now supports seamless progressive hydration.

Any component can throw during hydration (or new tree creation like a route change!), and if a component somewhere higher in the tree catches that via componentDidCatch, hydration gets paused.

Re-rendering the tree (via setState, etc) simply resumes hydration where it left off.

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webpack-plugin-modern-npm

Automatically transpile modern packages in node_modules.

Available in 3 fun flavours: plugin, loader and loader factory.

Plugin

Add the plugin to your webpack config, and it should handle everything for you.

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Greenlet for Node worker_threads

Works with ESM and CommonJS.

import greenlet from 'greenlet-node';

const add = greenlet(async (a, b) => {
  return a + b;
});

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